"...but I don't want to actually do anything about it."

One of the many problems with this generation (society?) is that so many of us are content to know that we are vehemently against abusers of the human race, abusers of our neighbors, great injustices in the world...but, as I heard tonight, "that doesn't mean [we] want to talk about it!"

Especially as a white person, a cis person, a straight person, an able-bodied person etc, it's easy to topically disagree with someone being an elected official or a person/system in power despite the fact that they are racist, sexist, blatantly disregarding human rights, not to mention disregarding state and federal laws (if you put much stock in legalities)...but to not actually take a public stand, to not actually do anything about it, to not want to be bothered by it any more than you really have to...which, as a person in a place of privilege, is not much. 

If you're not dying in prison because of inhuman conditions, if you're not being pulled over (and so much worse) because of your skin color, if you're not worried about finding a place to live or work because of your sexuality, why should you care?

Personally, I think that anyone with any amount of privilege (which is the large majority of people, myself certainly included) who does not stand up and speak out about injustices is a selfish soulless self-centered asshole. How many more people need to suffer, need to die, before we start talking about it, or (better yet!) doing something about it?

Racism (or sexism, or rape culture, etc) is not quaint or funny. It is a systematic oppression of a huge group of individuals who have done absolutely nothing to deserve it or bring it upon themselves. If I mention rape in a conversation, it's because I'm making a point--and the fact that, most of the time, my serious points are taken as jokes really says something. If I mention race in a conversation, it's because as a white person, I feel the need to speak up about how shitty my race and the systems in place treat people of color. If we don't draw attention to these things, who will?

People are struggling to live openly, people are unable to simply go about their daily lives, people are dying, and all you can do is joke about it or ignore it completely. What does that say about you? Are you really going to go through your entire life that way?

If you realize something is wrong, then realize that you could very well be in a position to do something about it.